University Research Centres: Organizational Structures and Performance

Managing University - Industry Research Centres : Five Principles of Good Practice

This document reports the results of a multi-case study of university-industry research centres at a research-intensive UK university. It identifies a series of management principles that enable successful collaboration between universities and firms. The analysis is based on information gathered during interviews with 25 individuals involved in four centres, including representatives from indu...

Organizational Endowments and the Performance of University Start-ups

The question of how initial resource endowments—the stocks of resources that entrepreneurs contribute to their new ventures at the time of founding—affect organizational life chances is one of significant interest in organizational ecology, evolutionary theory, and entrepreneurship research. Using data on the life histories of all 134 firms founded to exploit MIT-assigned inventions during the ...

Benchmarking Organizational Performance of University Extension : a Stochastic Frontier Approach

Public R&D and Regional Development: Spillovers from University and Company-based Research Centres

Public funding of university and company-based R&D centres of excellence is widespread both in core and more peripheral regions in the hope of generating local knowledge spillovers. In this paper we examine one such initiative involving the establishment of 18 publicly funded R&D centres. Based on data from a real-time monitoring study, we explore the development of the centres‘ external connec...

IT-Based Virtual Medical Centres and Structures

Today, medical infrastructures are subject to organisational change the world over. The reasons for this are manifold. On the one hand, it can be observed through scientific innovation and gaining of knowledge that a more in-depth specialisation is taking place, which means that medical healthcare providers are able to offer in-depth knowledge in narrowing fields. On the other hand, through inc...